buffettgirl
The whole tag thing, so 1990's internet.
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- Dec 26, 2008
Thanks for the tip about alternating sides and fingers. Would never have occurred to me. LOL
And thank you for the advice about testing before and after eating. I will have to get in the habit.
My machine says I can test on the forearm. Is that as accurate? How painful is that?
The spike that bothered me, I had eaten a Jimmy Dean sausage, egg, and cheese croissant thing. No idea why they are in the house since I don't usually buy processed crap. Anyway, that was the 140 3 hours later. Chicken soup (homemade) was 88 2 hours after. Today I had a grilled chicken wrap (ceasar dressing, iceburg lettuce, 2 slices of a small tomato, some red onion, and a home grilled chicken breast pieces on a burrito size tortilla) and 2 hours later my sugar was at 209. It just seems really really high to me.
Ok, on the first, that was a fat spike. It's totally normal. The fat slows down the digestion of carbs and even a perfectly healthy person will have a fluctuation like that.
The 209 is high, but make sure you're washing and drying your fingers completely before testing. Any residue left on your fingers will alter your results.
I am not really sure. I think type 2. They were all insulin dependent. And by lots I mean grandmothers on both sides, mother, father is borderline, plenty of aunts and uncles, and at least one first cousin that I know of. My mother was my age when she was first diagnosed which I think has a lot to do with my paranoia about it. She also did not take care of it and let it kill her before she was even 50 years old. I am trying my best to not walk in their footsteps. My uncle recently lost a toe to diabetes. I have seen the worst that it can do and I don't wish for it to happen to me. I am trying to be as proactive as I can be.
Should I not be concerned about numbers? What is normal after a meal? I was at 150 after dinner tonight. I guess I just tend to think that your numbers should always be between 80-110 and anything over 120 is bad. Is that wrong?
If you have had all these people who are younger, and all who are insulin dependent at an early age, you might want to investigate the possibly that your family has something called LADA. It's an autoimmune form of diabetes (like type1) which manifests itself like type 2. There are also many different genetic types of diabetes that mimic type 2 as well. But I"d look at LADA first.
Here is one study that shows how variable "normal" blood sugar can be http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892065/
(you can convert the blood sugars from mmol/l to mg/dl here http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/converter.htm
and this is a very interesting presentation:
http://www.diabetes-symposium.org/index.php?menu=view&id=322
So that's not to say that you don't have a problem brewing, but it might not be as drastic as you think.